Geordi and I

Have you ever seen pictures of people with their pets, where the pets and their owners kind of look alike?

I was thinking about that for some reason the other day, and got to thinking about how Geordi and I are alike.


1. Geordi is talkative when we're home with him, but hides whenever we have guests. I am talkative when I'm at home with Lauren, but I'm shy (and even have been known to hide away) when she has friends over.

2. Geordi developed dreads on part of his body (we had them cut off a few days ago). I...well, you know what I look like.

3. We both prefer chillin' to hitting the town.


4. Geordi never eats a lot at one sitting. I've been told that I "eat like a bird", I "eat nothing" and am "a grazer"; I can never eat a HUGE meal.

5. We both like boiled corn without butter (I don't know if he would like corn with butter, because I've never given him any).


6. Geordi likes to pick at things he sees on the floor/carpet. I like to pick at things on Geordi (including the gunk he sometimes gets in his nose - yes, I pick my cat's nose).

7. I like to eat with chopsticks. Geordi wishes he could eat with chopsticks.


8. We both love (and sometimes annoy) Lauren.

The Weekend before Finals

I often like to have very little work to do the weekend before finals; finals are written at that point, and just about everything that needs to be graded has been graded.

This quarter though, I did have to do some work over the pre-finals weekend. I finished up an MBA course on Thursday night, with a big group project/presentation. Because I had been working on that all week, I had to put some grading on the back burner until the weekend. I still tried to make the most of the weekend....

On Friday, Lauren picked me up from work, and we went to see Get Smart. It was pretty good. I'd give it a 7.8 on a 0-10 scale. I had a soccer game that evening, but because of the heat, and the fact that the opposing team could only field 8 players, they forfeited after 25 minutes (in that time I scored twice, though one was called back for being offsides - I did not agree with the ref on that call).

I got 5 hours sleep on Friday night - I can't sleep when it's light, and because of the 100-degree weather we have had, we slept with the window open. I was up by 6, after going to bed at 1.

Saturday included watching Russia beat The Netherlands in the Euro 2008 cup (our satellite went out for a couple of minutes during the game - the couple of minutes when The Netherlands scored to tie up the game). I graded Algebra projects while watching the game.

We also (finally) used a gift certificate to Menara (pictured above). It had actually expired in May, but I creatively changed some 5's to 8's, and we were able to use it. Score!

Today, I plan on watching the Spain-Italy game (while grading quizzes), cleaning the house, and making banana bread. I live on that fine line between sports enthusiast and domestic spouse.

What's been up with me

I haven't blogged for a while.

First, an update on Maya. My niece, Maya, was born on May 1, and had to have open heart surgery when she was 6 days old. It was touch-and-go for a while, and it was rough on our family for a week or two. She is now back home with her parents, but still has some recovering to do. Here she is, showing what she really thinks of her uncle.



As far as what I'm up to; another MBA class is coming to an end. On June 19, I have my last 'Translating Strategy to Operations' class. I then get 20 days off!!!

My next class postponed it's start for 2 weeks (I don't know why), so I get almost 3 weeks without an MBA class, which is kind of amazing, because I've had at least one MBA class a week since early January. My next class is the capstone MBA class, where we have to come up with a business we would want to start. I'm think of having my business be a tutoring center (or a bed and breakfast). The bed and breakfast would probably be looked at as being an odd choice, which may not be the best to go with. I went with an odd choice for my law paper - many people did discrimination cases, and I focused on a wrongful dismissal suit brought on by a teacher - and I got a very good grade before, so who knows? Maybe I should do a bed and breakfast.

In De Anza news, the quarter is wrapping up in two weeks, and then the Summer session starts. I'm looking forward to teaching this Summer, because I'm teaching just one class, and it doesn't meet until 3 pm, so I can get work done in the mornings.

That's it for now...

The End of College

It hit me yesterday, as I was doing laundry, that I have been a college graduate for over 10 years now. I think I graduated on May 9, 1998, but I'm not at all sure on that.

That being said, I still feel like I'm in school, with this MBA thing still going on. As it turns out I'm going to have to go to class, and take a quiz, on my birthday, which lands on a Saturday this year. Birthdays only land on weekends so often, but even though mine is on a weekend this year, 4 hours of that day will be spent sitting in class. Oh joy!

On the teaching side of things, we have 4 weeks left in the quarter. Someone once told me that De Anza (and Foothill) end later than any other college in the country. I don't know if that's the case, but going until June 27 is pretty deep into the Summer. To top it off, the Summer quarter starts on June 30. I don't get any real break from De Anza until August. At least when that time comes around this year, I will know that I won't be back at De Anza until January, thanks to me being on sabbatical.